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People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.
Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.
I just sit down and write the best song for the best moment, and however it comes out, it is what it is.
In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.
Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.
I couldn't make every song about Texas because it wouldn't be new; it wouldn't be a breath of fresh air.
Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing.
I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.
There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.
It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.
If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
With some of the songs, we brought the pitch down to alto.I'm older, so naturally my voice is lower now.
It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.
What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.
Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.
The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.
I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.
I'm very proud of 'Will the Sun Ever Shine Again.' That was a song written very close to the 9/11 event.
Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.
I'm doing more than just making songs for the radio. I want it to be a well rounded sounding experience.
I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.
One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry.
Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
I got a new song called "The Plug" and the hook says "I'm the plug/I'm connected to everything you love.
I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
I'm outa here, I'm only playing one song, and I'm not coming back for ten years! And when I come back..!
When I'm recording a song, I wake up and I'm thinking about it. I go to sleep and I'm thinking about it.
I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
The Eurovision Song Contest is by definition apolitical - unless your song criticises Russia, of course.
I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song.
I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
If prolific is writing a lot of songs, I'm that. If it's writing a lot of good songs, I'm something else.
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.
My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?
When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out!
A Change Is Gonna Come' has always been a powerful song for me as it comes from a place of vulnerability.
Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.
I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That's my friend, but every time I'm around her, I get shy.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.